HOUSE.....No. 201. [Reported, in the Senate, by the Committee on the Judiciary.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Eight. RESOLVE On the Petition of Michael Quinn. Resolved, for the reasons set forth in said petition, that all the rights which this Commonwealth has acquired, or may acquire, by escheat, in and to certain real estate, situated in Springfield, in the county of Hampden, viz: the real estate described in the deed of William Child to Peter Quinn, dated July fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and registered in book one hundred and three, page four hundred and ninety-four, of the registry of deeds, for said county; also, the deed of Lydia Sargeant to Peter Quinn, dated September first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and registered in said registry, in book one hundred and six, page one hundred and eighty-one; also, the deed of Justice Willard to Peter Quinn, dated September twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and recorded in said registry, in book one hundred, and pages three hundred and ninety-six and three hundred and ninety-seven; also, the deed of John B. Dwelly to George Colton, dated November third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and recorded in said registry, in book one hundred and one, page one hundred and sixty-seven, be, and the same hereby are, granted to said Michael Quinn. Passed to be engrossed. Sent down for concurrence. SENATE, April 28, 1848. CHAS. CALHOUN, Clerk. HOUSE....No. 202. [Reported by the Committee on the Judiciary.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyEight. AN ACT Concerning the State Reform School. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 SECT. 1. That the trustees of the State Reform 2 School, for the time being, shall be a corporation, by 3 the name of the Trustees of the State Reform School, 4 for the purpose of taking and holding, to them and 5 their successors, in trust for the Commonwealth, any 6 grant or devise of lands, and any donation or bequest. 7 of money, or other personal property, which has 8 been, or may hereafter be, made for the use of said 9 institution—and, for the purpose of preserving and 10 investing the proceeds of any such grant, devise, do11 nation, or bequest, in notes or bonds secured by 12 good and sufficient mortgages, or in other securities— 13 with all the powers necessary to carry into effect the 14 purposes aforesaid. 1 SECT. 2. This act shall take effect from and after 2 its passage. [Reported by the Committee on the Judiciary.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyEight. AN ACT Authorizing Sheriffs and their Deputies to administer Oaths, in certain cases. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 Whenever any officer shall, hereafter, proceed to 2 levy an execution upon real estate, in the manner 3 provided in the third section of the seventy-third 4 chapter of the Revised Statutes, or shall proceed to 5 set off dower, as prescribed in the sixth section of 6 the one hundred and second chapter of the Revised 7 Statutes, said officer may administer the oaths 8 therein required, any thing in said sections to the 9 contrary notwithstanding. |